NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1734MHz vs 1125MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

4.608 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile +92%

8.878 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

757 MHz

Base Clock

1556 MHz

1125 MHz

Boost Clock

1734 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

36.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.0 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.4 GTexel/s

4.608 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.7 GFLOPS

4.608 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.878 TFLOPS

72.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GP104

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GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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